Studio: international art (60.1914)

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determined to join the artist’s colony
at Godollo, where he is able to pursue
his art and his love of the simple life at
the same time. He dyes all his own
wools and passes his days at the looms.
He and Aladar Kriesch-Koro'sfbi are
well suited to work in unison; both
are in close sympathy, and together
they have created some very beautiful
tapestries. The example reproduced
has been acquired by the Hungarian
Government. Its design is refined in
sentiment without being sentimental;
it has a grace and a charm entirely
in keeping with the legendary lore
whence its motif is derived, and it has,
besides, a form and character peculiarly
its own. A. S. L.

BUDAPEST.—The piece of tapestry repro-
duced on the opposite page was' designed
by the well known Hungarian artist
Aladar Kriesch-Kordsfoi and is a tender
and poetical illustration of an old Hungarian legend
which tells of Argirus Kiralyfi and Tiinder Ilona.
King Argirus fell in love with a beautiful maiden
whose marvellous golden hair fell in thick strands
to her feet. In this lay her great power to charm
the king’s love; it was death to his love and to her
should harm happen to it. Tiinder Ilona (Tiinder
means a wicked fairy) was well aware of this, and
jealous of the king’s love for an unknown maiden
she crept stealthily into the garden one day when
the king and maiden were lying asleep in each
other’s arms and with her long shears cut off a
thick tress of her hair, and ever afterwards, so the
story goes, King Argirus wandered lonely. The
colour-scheme of the tapestry is well in tone with
the beautiful legend, it being yellow, green, and
blue. It has been exquisitely woven by Mr.
Belmont, a Swedish artist who passed some years in
Paris, where he made some mark as an artist. But
weaving appealed much to him and he finally
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EMBROIDERED CUSHIONS BY CHRISTIAN PERMIN

EMBROIDERED CUSHION

BY CHRISTIAN PERMIN

The second cushion is of plum-coloured cloth, the
basket and flowers being of a mellow golden colour
held like the green leaves, in intermediate tones and
softly harmonising with the quiet ground colour.
The ground of the third is black satin, and the
wreath is worked in yellowish-green hues. The
central ornamentation consists of lavender-coloured
bell-shaped flowers, the leaves being a cold whitish-
green. The effect of this cushion is enhanced by
the contrast between the cold tones of the centre
and that of the wreath. , G. B.